ABSTRACT
Deregulation of electricity is simply the purchase of the electricity commodity by retail customers from a source other than their own serving utility. Whether electricity commodity is purchased from the utility or through the deregulation process, the actual electrons being delivered to the customer will be the same quality and be distributed through the same transmission/distribution wires and meters that are used by the utility that serves the customer. The real problem electric utilities have with deregulation of electricity is that it requires them to obtain and keep their retail customer base through competition, not through regulatory commission mandated service territory boundaries. One of the real questions concerning deregulation of electricity is how the electricity gets from the point of generation to the point of use over various transmission lines. To others, it can refer to variation in hertz, variation in voltage, harmonic levels, and electric line transmitted spikes, etc.
